"RACIAL DISCRIMINATION"

Informal comments to the media by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations and Security Council President for the month of March, on the conclusion of the U.S. presidency of the Security Council.

Delegates stress need for reckoning with slavery’s role in perpetuating bias, inequality, as General Assembly marks International Day to Remember Victims.

While apartheid ‘lies dead, racism lives on’, says United Nations Chief, as General Assembly observes Day for Eliminating Racial Discrimination.

Briefing by Brenden Varma, Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, UN chief António Guterres reiterated that our duty, as responsible global citizens, is to eradicate racism, “wherever we see racism, we must condemn it without reservation, without hesitation, without qualification.” UNIFEED

Briefing by Brenden Varma, Spokesperson for the President of the 75th Session of the General Assembly.

Briefing by Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

In recorded Vote, General Assembly adopts resolution underlining United Nations cooperation with chemical weapons prohibition organization.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for ‘new social contract’ as part of post-pandemic recovery at an ECOSOC Special Meeting aimed to address the links between structural racism, inequalities and the SDGs.